JOHN EVELYN iii 



rather dore case adorn'd with divers excellent marble statues. 

 This garden abounded with all sorts of delicious fruit and exotig 

 simples, fountaines of sundry inventions, groves, and small rivulets. 

 There is also adjoining to it a vivarium for estriges, peacocks, 

 swanns, cranes, etc., and divers strange beasts, deare, and hares. 

 The grotto is very rare, and represents among other devices 

 artificial raine, and sundry shapes of vessells, flowers, etc., which 

 is effected by changing the heades of the fountaines. 



I went with my brother Evelyn to Wotton to give him what Wotton. 

 directions I was able about his garden, which he was now desirous '^52, Mck.22. 

 to put into some forme ; but for which he was to remove a 

 mountaine overgrowne with huge trees and thicket, with a moate 

 within 10 yards of the house. This my brother immediately 

 attempted, and that without greate cost, for more than an 

 hundred yards South, by digging downe the mountaine and 

 flinging it into a rapid stream, it not onely carried away the 

 sand, etc., but filled up the moate, and level'd that noble area, 

 where now the garden and fountaine is. The first occasion of 

 my brother making this alteration was my building the little 

 retiring place betweene the greate wood Eastward next the 

 meadow, where some time after my father's death I made a 

 triangular pond, or little stew, with an artificial rock after my 

 coming out of Flanders. 



I began to set out the ovall garden at Sayes Court, which was Sayes Court, 

 before a rude orchard and all the rest one intire field of 100 acres, 1653, /a//. 17. 

 without any hedge, except the hither holly hedge joyning to the 

 Bank of the mount walk. This was the beginning of all the 

 succeeding gardens, walks, groves, enclosures, and plantations 

 there. 



I planted the Orchard at Sayes Court, new moone, wind W. 1653, /««. 19. 



I went to Hackney to see my Lady Brooke's garden, which was 1653, May 8. 

 one of the neatest and most celebrated in England, the house well 

 furnish'd, but a despicable building. Returning visited one Mr 

 Lambs's garden ; it has large and noble walks, some modern 

 statues, a vineyard, planted in strawberry borders, staked at 10 



